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Gothic stone capital with coat of arms

Gothic style capital. Mythological female figures hold a coat of arms: "three passing animals, oppressed by a sword". We have not been able to identify the family represented by the coat of arms.

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Daphne and Apollo, antique Louis XVI style fireback with a mythological decor

This cast iron fireback with mythological decor was made during the 19th century. It is decorated with Louis XVI style typical elements such as foliate scrolls, Acanthus leaves and delicate flowers. It has on its center a medallion surrounted by an architectural decor with a palmette on its pediment. The central cartridge is underlined by two branches of laurel attached to each other. The mythological subject represented on this cast iron fireback fireback is the story of Apollo and Daphne who preferred to transform into a laurel rather than to accept advances from Apollo. The latter picked a branch of the precious laurel in order to decorate his lyre and his quiver which are typical ornaments of Louis XVI style.

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Cast iron fireback with a woman bust, 18th century

This beautiful fireback was made in the 18th century Squared shape with a semi circle pediment, this fireback is adorned with a typical Louis XV style decoration composed of acanthus leaves, flowers and shell scrolls, framing a woman bust dressed with a ancient tunique and a flowers crown on her hair.

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Fire fender with acanthus leaves

These andirons joined by a fire fender were made of gilt bronze in the late 19th century. Resting on a base taking decorative architectural elements, the andirons are adorned with beautiful acanthus leaves scrolls.

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Bronze helmet spark arrester, 19th century

This bronze spark arrester was made around 1880. Inside an architectural structure chiseled with volutes and leaves, a scalloped outline holds the screen of the fire arrester. The mesh, which is original and decorated with gridded and interspersed patterns, has a slight accident. The bronze piece is supported on either side by two column-shaped feet ending in four snail-shaped branches. On each column culminates a medieval helmet with a beautiful plume in the spirit of Théodore Gechter, a famous sculptor and bronze-worker of the first half of the century. Under the top of the breastplate, we can make out two laurel branches and a coat of arms decorated with a band and a point. Indeed, at the beginning of the 19th century, artists rediscovered the Middle Ages, a period until then totally set aside in favor of Antiquity. This bronze piece bears witness to this newfound taste for medieval themes.